development/edb-debugger: Fix README.

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@ -3,19 +3,20 @@ written on top of the ptrace API. It is built on a plugin-based architecture.
Its features include: Its features include:
*Intuitive GUI interface * Intuitive GUI interface
*The usual debugging operations (step-into/step-over/run/break) * The usual debugging operations (step-into/step-over/run/break)
*Conditional breakpoints * Conditional breakpoints
*Debugging core is implemented as a plugin so people can have drop in replacements. * Debugging core is implemented as a plugin so people can have drop-in
Of course if a given platform has several debugging APIs available, replacements. Of course if a given platform has several debugging APIs
then you may have a plugin that implements any of them. available, then you may have a plugin that implements any of them.
*Basic instruction analysis * Basic instruction analysis
*View/Dump memory regions * View/Dump memory regions
*Effective address inspection * Effective address inspection
*The data dump view is tabbed, allowing you to have several views of memory open at the same time and quickly switch between them. * The data dump view is tabbed, allowing you to have several views of memory
*Importing and generation of symbol maps open at the same time and quickly switch between them.
* Importing and generation of symbol maps
*Plugins * Plugins:
Code analysis engine which can identify functions Code analysis engine which can identify functions
Search for binary strings Search for binary strings
Code Bookmarks Code Bookmarks
@ -25,10 +26,12 @@ Its features include:
Environment variable viewer Environment variable viewer
Hardware Breakpoints Hardware Breakpoints
Heap block enumeration Heap block enumeration
Opcode search engine plugin has basic functionality (similar to msfelfscan/msfpescan) Opcode search engine plugin has basic functionality (similar to
msfelfscan/msfpescan)
Open file enumeration Open file enumeration
Reference finder Reference finder
String searching (like strings command in *nix) String searching (like strings command in *nix)
Basic ROP instruction search Basic ROP instruction search
Compared to gdb, edb is more suited to reverse engineering, rather than white-box software debugging. Compared to gdb, edb is more suited to reverse engineering, rather than
white-box software debugging.